Support Amy McGrath, a Democrat who is running for a House of Representatives seat in Kentucky’s 6th District in 2018.

 

In all likelihood you’ve heard about McGrath already. Back in August, she released a powerful campaign ad that caused a stir. She took on the incumbent, Republican Andy Barr, as well as Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell. She made it with Mark Putnam, who did campaign ads for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

 

It also caused a stir because McGrath is objectively awesome. She is the first woman   Marine to fly an F-18 on a combat mission. In the video, she also recalls writing her Congressional delegation as 13-year-old, asking how to pursue a career as a fighter jet pilot. Her rep threw cold water on her ambitions, telling her, “women ought to be protected and not allowed to serve in combat.”

 

Fortunately, she was not deterred. She flew combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and spent the morning of September 11, 2001, prepped and ready to shoot down any commercial airliners that might aim themselves at Los Angeles or San Diego. She retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel in June 2017.

 

McGrath beat five other Democrats to win the May 22 primary, but she has her work cut out for her. Barr won re-election in 2016 by more than 20 points, and by a two-to-one margin, and Ballotpedia rates Kentucky’s 6th District as “safely Republican.” But she’s got serious momentum, on the order of Randy Brice, aka Ironstache, the Democrat who’s challenging Paul Ryan for his house seat in Wisconsin.

 

 

See McGrath’s campaign website (her campaign videos are on the front page):

https://www.amymcgrathforcongress.com

 

 

Read her ‘About’ page:

https://www.amymcgrathforcongress.com/about

 

 

Consider her for your Core Four for 2018:

https://onethingyoucando.com/2017/12/24/choose-your-core-four-for-2018/

 

 

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Donate to Amy McGrath’s campaign:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/amy-mcgrath-for-congress

 

 

Like McGrath on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/AmyMcGrathKY/

 

 

Follow McGrath on Twitter:

@AmyMcGrathKY

 

 

Read about McGrath’s campaign:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/01/politics/amy-mcgrath-kentucky-announcement-video/index.html

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/344734-dem-ad-maker-cuts-new-ad-in-kentucky-for-amy-mcgrath

http://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/541223715/female-retired-marine-with-viral-campaign-ad-hopes-to-bridge-gap-in-democratic-p

 

 

And here are some articles that talk about both McGrath and Brice:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56756/amy-mcgrath-ad-paul-ryan-wall/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/can_a_kentuckian_fighter_pilot_obliterate_democrats_effete_reputation.html